Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:50:22 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 9 March 2012 at 21:36:28 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I can't say I agree with this, as it pollutes the global namespace with  
>> several common terms that could be used for fields.
>
> There's no such thing as a global namespace in D, and
> field names wouldn't be affected even if there was one.

Of course there isn't.  What I meant was the module level namespace.  Any  
file you import by default goes into your current module namespace.  In  
effect it's the global namespace *for your module*.

But if I have to spell that out every time, it's going to be a lot of  
typing.  It's generally understood that the "global namespace" is the  
effective global namespace during your module.  Yes, there are ways to  
rename imports, I find it poor design to *require* renaming imports.

> int minutes(int i) {
> 	return i;
> }
>
> struct A {
> 	int minutes; // not a problem
>          void foo() {
>               minutes = .minutes(1); // works
> 	}
> }

Again, I find this just as descriptive and not terrible to type:

struct A {
   Duration minutes;
   void foo() {
       minutes = dur!"minutes"(1);
   }
}

-Steve